Admin beware: Attack hitting Apache websites is invisible to the naked eye. Ongoing exploits infecting tens of thousands of reputable sites running the Apache Web server have only grown more powerful and stealthy since Ars first reported on them four weeks ago.
Researchers have now documented highly sophisticated features that make these exploits invisible without the use of special forensic detection methods. Linux/Cdorked.A, as the backdoor has been dubbed, turns Apache-run websites into platforms that surreptitiously expose visitors to powerful malware attacks. According to a blog post published Friday by researchers from antivirus provider Eset, virtually all traces of the backdoor are stored in the shared memory of an infected server, making it extremely hard for administrators to know their machine has been hacked. "Unless a person really has some deep-dive knowledge on the incident response team, the first thing they're going to do is kill the evidence," Cameron Camp, a security researcher at Eset North America, told Ars. How EVE Online builds emotion out of its strict in-game economy.
In the early days of EVE Online, CCP Games CTO Hilmar Veigar Petursson found himself with a dilemma.
He had borrowed a higher-end ship from a friend, promising to use it to mine for their mutual benefit. During a bathroom break, though, he came back to find his auto-mining ship had been destroyed, a result of his carelessly forgetting to modify the in-game safety settings correctly. At first, he was distraught over betraying his friend’s trust. Then he realized that, as CTO of the company making the game, he could give his friend a replacement ship with just a few lines of server code.
Still, he hesitated. “Oh, why does that feel so wrong, cheating in my own game?” In the EVE universe, all of those bits of code represent the time and effort that the game’s players spent organizing into corporations and alliances, mining virtual resources and protecting their investments, Petursson said. “This is a fundamental test from the universe” he recalls telling his wife.
How Google's self-driving cars see the world, think Terminator. One of the most recognizable visual tropes of science fiction is Terminator vision, a red-tinted, data overlay view that is meant to illustrate what the killer robot is seeing as its hunts its human prey. Now one of Silicon Valley's leading techies has posted what could be considered the visual equivalent for Google's much talked about self-driving cars .
Gross, the long-time head of technology incubator Idealab , the organization behind a wide range of tech companies, posted the visual to his Twitter account earlier today. Accompanying the visual, Gross wrote, "Google's Self-Driving Car gathers almost 1GB per SECOND. Here's what it 'sees' making a left turn…" Gross doesn't explain where this recent visual comes from, but in the video below you can see an animated version of the graphic via a presentation made a couple of years ago by Chris Urmson, one of the project's early developers. Via Bill Gross. Future Timeline.
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